Despite the bearish atmosphere at the start of 2026, bitcoin is still drawing price targets from nearly every corner of the market, with veteran traders, institutional analysts, and high-profile executives placing calls that range from a near-term drop to $40,000 to a long-term ceiling of $1.5 million. Key Takeaways: Arthur Hayes targets $125K bitcoin by
BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink says America’s giant AI buildout will need trillions of dollars, and regular people’s money is part of the plan. According to Larry, the investments in artificial intelligence, including those for data centers, power grids, chips, and cables among others will come from places such as bank savings and pensions.
Prominent financial commentator Peter Schiff recently took aim at ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood and her vision for the future of digital savings. Wood on Bitcoin, arguing that the legacy precious metal is historically overvalued and primed for a major correction. The case for tokenized gold Schiff has rejected the idea that Bitcoin might have
TLDR: Market vision: A Stripe report cited in the ecosystem projects that the Artificial Intelligence agent economy will require 1 billion transactions per second globally. Current infrastructure: No operational blockchain network in today’s market processes a volume anywhere near the demand estimated by the tech industry. Technical launch: Mysten Labs projects the release of a
Something quietly remarkable happened in early 2026: roughly 65% of agentic AI payments are already running on Solana. Not Ethereum, not Arbitrum, not Base. Solana. While most of the crypto world spent 2025 debating memecoins and ETF inflows, autonomous AI agents were busy choosing their preferred settlement layer, and they overwhelmingly picked the chain that
Last week, net outflows from spot Bitcoin [$BTC] ETFs totaled $1.257 billion. The last time such a week-long outflow trend occurred was in December 2025. On the 18th of May, Bitcoin ETFs saw outflows totaling $648.6 billion, with BlackRock’s IBIT experiencing the largest outflows at $448.4 million. Bitwise’s BITB, Invesco’s BTCO, Franklin Templeton’s EZBC, VanEck’s
VAYLA, a next-gen Web3 infrastructure network, has partnered with Token Terminal, a popular crypto analytics entity. The partnership is set to develop smarter, highly scalable, and more transparent Web3 solutions. As VAYLA revealed in its latest X post, the development merges the strengths of both entities to redefine DeFi data architecture. So, the integration of
Bitcoin has pulled back to retest a support line sitting around $74,500, a level that has been central to technical analysis for months. The line served as resistance multiple times in March, formed the April low last year, and was broken to the upside in April. Bitcoin has now come back to test it from